an anecdote            
                                          
 today it rained, and i would go  outside 
 i  thought, so  i smoked a  pipe and got 
 dressed,   and  outside   the  rain  had 
 turned  into snow  so thick that it  was 
 as dense fog ... and then i  went to get 
 the mail,  but there was a  woman and we 
 talked a little. now because i was  high 
 and  it was snowing so  funny and i  had 
 an umbrella against  the snow, but  snow 
 all over  my face anyway, and i wondered 
         about myself, and my life